Reason When 14-year-old Ixcell Perez’s leukemia relapsed earlier this year, her doctor in Mexico told her and her mother, Dalia Perez, to head to the United States to seek treatment. It …
India, the land of Mahatma Gandhi, the patron saint of pluralism, peace, and tolerance, is on the cusp of achieving a dubious distinction: It is poised to launch the biggest …
A decade ago, single payer health care—the government-run health care system that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) refers to as Medicare for All—was a fringe idea in the Democratic Party. President …
New York City Mayor and 15th-ranked Democratic presidential candidate Bill de Blasio professed his hatred last month for the “charter school movement,” “high-stakes testing,” and other educational policies bequeathed to …
You may recall much discussion, in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, of the possibility that presidential electors—the folks who, under our constitutional scheme, actually elect our president and …
A day before Missouri’s ban on abortion after eight weeks of pregnancy was scheduled to take effect, the law was partially blocked by a federal court. In the decision, U.S. …
Kim Davis believes same-sex marriage is immoral. While serving as County Clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, Davis refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples because, as she explained, “To …
From Hennessey’s Tavern, Inc., 2019 WL 3825492 (Cal. Super. Ct. July 26, 2019), written by Judge Deirdre Hill: On June 28, 2018, plaintiff Hennessey’s Tavern, Inc. filed a complaint against …
Police in Ipswich, England, arrested Lindsey Webb for putting her recycling out in the wrong color bags. Prosecutors say the change from black to orange and clear bags had been …
This week an Oklahoma judge ruled that Johnson & Johnson should pay $572 million to “abate” a “public nuisance” the company created in that state by minimizing the hazards and …